Wow, this movie has everything! I give it a weak
recommendation...I enjoyed myself for the most part, but the density of
the dramatic conventions was jarring.

Gothika: Another weak positive from me. The first half
of the movie was an above-average supernatural thriller that is almost
ignored by the second half in favor of a below-average serial killer
flick. You can almost draw a line down the movie, right where they forget
about all the mystic stuff that was going on. I would recommend watching
The Ring followed by Seven, if that's really what you want.

Timeline: Holy crap, it's as bad as I thought. Paul Walker is ostensibly
the lead, playing a pretty stupid 20-something, and he can't even be
convincing with that. You'd think he would have that character down
after hispreviouswork, but no. The rest of
the cast is similarly hampered by their lack of talent. They travel 600
years into the past, ending up in medieval France, but fortunately
everybody they meet speaks modern French, the modern conception of old
English, or both. I've muddled my way through a translation of The
Canterbury Tales, and I know that even when the words are in "modern
English" they had
some wacky grammar back 600 years. The number of medieval citizens fluent
in both languages
seems abnormally high, which is good because the number of bilingual time
travelers is precisely one. Totally weak, and not even fun to mock. On
top of everything else, it lasts for nearly two hours! Last Samurai
was only 2:20, there's not two hours of movie here!